Events
Yalta ConferencePotsdam ConferenceHiroshimaNagasakiJapanese surrender, end of WWIIStalin "hostile" speech
communism and capitalism incompatibleIron Curtain Speech by Winston ChurchillIran crisis
Truman demands Russia leave IranTurkish straits crisis reaches climax"Long Telegram" by George KennanTruman DoctrineMarshall PlanThe "X" Article (Kennan)Creation of the CIACreation of CominformCreation of NATOBerlin Blockade (start)Berlin Blockade (end)Russia tests its first atomic bombCreation of PRCKMT fled to TaiwanFrench defeated at Dien Bien Phu
Geneva summit splits Vietnam in twoDeath of StalinPlan TotalityOperation UnthinkableSino-Soviet Treaty of FriendshipTaiwan Straits Crisis (China bombing Quemoy)Taiwan Straits Crisis (China bombing Quemoy again)Khrushchev "secret speech"Moscow ConferenceUSSR cancels Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic co-opSoviet proposal for joint naval arrangementSino-Indian border conflictPeaceful CoexistenceChina ecouraged Albania and Romania to assert greater independence from MoscowUSSR pulls out all economic aid and advisers from ChinaChina explodes first nuclear bombUSSR went about strengthening its ties with Mongolia, North Korea and North VietnamSoviet invasion of CzechoslovakiaUssuri River DisputeSINO SOVIET SPLITKissinger visits ChinaShanghai CommuniqueWarsaw PactTruman becomes US presidentEisenhower becomes US presidentKennedy becomes US presidentKennedy assassinatedJohnson becomes US presidentNixon becomes US presidentFord becomes US presidentCarter becomes US presidentReagan becomes US presidentDeath of Mao ZedongBlack ThursdaySmoot-Hawley Tariff ActCollapse of KreditanstaltBritain drops the gold standardUS drops the gold standardCollapse of Bank of United StatesCollapse of Danat-BankAdolf Hitler becomes chancellorLondon Economic ConferenceManchurian CrisisLytton ComissionJapan leaving LONGermany leaving LONRoosevelt becomes US presidentHoover becomes US presidentAnglo-German Naval AgreementHitler remilitarises RhinelandHitler brings back military conscriptionRome-Berlin AxisAnti-Comintern Pact (Japan)AnschlussMunich ConferenceInvasion of SudetenlandHitler invades rest of CzechoslovakiaHitler invades PolandSTART WW2Chamberlain meets Hitler in GodesbergNazi-Soviet PactHoover suspends German debts for a yearLausanne ConferenceHitler stops making paymentsJohnson ActSALT-ISALT-IIMoscow TreatyBasic TreatyHelsinki AgreementsSoviet invasion of AfghanistanEND OF DETENTENuclear Test Ban TreatyKhrushchev becomes head of Communist PartyBrezhnev becomes head of Communist PartyAndropov becomes head of Communist PartyChernenko becomes head of Communist PartyGorbachev becomes head of Communist PartyIran Hostage CrisisStrategic Defense Initiative (STAR WARS)Reagan DoctrineChernobylGeneva SummitGorbachev suspends countermeasures applied in response to NATO INF deploymentsSoviet Nuclear Disarmament InitiativeReykjavik SummitINF TreatySolidarity wins elections in PolandVelvet RevolutionSoviet coup d'état attemptCOLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNIONPeriods
Korean WarGreat Leap ForwardCultural Revolutionbank failuresAbyssinian Crisis
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